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For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
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and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
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and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
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For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.
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Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.
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For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
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I think it right, as long as I am in this body,to stir you up by way of reminder,
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since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
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And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things. 2 Pet 1
Friday, December 19, 2014
Thursday, December 4, 2014
SUSTAINED
Here we see another crucial aspect of the
prayer of supplication—the necessity of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Those who belong to Christ also have the indwelling Holy Spirit who
intercedes on our behalf. Because we often don’t know what or how to
pray when we approach God, the Spirit intercedes and prays for us,
interpreting our supplications so that, when we are overwhelmed by
trials and the cares of life, He comes alongside to lend assistance with
our prayers of supplication as He sustains us before the throne of
grace (Romans 8:26).
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